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25-950 Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending appellate-review certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process sixth-amendment I Did the Sixth Circuit err when it reversed the district court's grant of the writ based on ineffective assistance of counsel during cross-examinatio…
25-6766 Eric Joshua Mapes v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending arrest-warrant due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-oversight probable-cause 1. Police Complaint as Arrest Warrant Whether a notarized police-authored criminal complaint, executed without judicial oversight and misrepresented a…
25-6721 Palma Jefferson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending constitutional-challenge fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-defect I. Fourth Amendment: Warrant and Entry Defects 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment's probable cause requirement is satisfied when a search warrant issues…
25-6708 In Re Allen Watkins 2026-02-04 Pending civil-rights due-process federal-arbitration-act judicial-discretion ministerial-duty ultra-vires 1. Whether, under the Federal Arbitration Act of February 12, 1925, ch. 213, § 9, 43 Stat. 883, the clerk and judge of a United States District Court …
25A871 Malik Allah-U-Akbar v. David Schroeder, Judge Ohio 2026-02-03 Application double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-factfinding sixth-amendment suspension-clause Question not identified.
25A857 John Paul Gomez v. David Ryan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application civil-rights dismissal judicial-procedure pro-se section-1983 vexatious-litigant Question not identified.
25-878 Todd Jeffrey Rogers v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-22 Pending constitutional-right impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias rehabilitation voir-dire Whether a prospective juror who admitted bias can be rehabilitated through silence or group answers in response to group questions.
25-6621 Lamar Reese v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-20 Pending legal-procedure ohio-revised-code petition-denial post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation trial-court-error Did the State trial Court err in denying Petitioner's Post Conviction Petition that was filed under Ohio Revised Code 2953.23(A)(1)?
25-6628 Elhadj Alpha Mahmoud Souare v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Summit County, et al. Ohio 2026-01-20 Pending administrative-law custody-order due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-requirements 1. Whether a magistrate's issuance of a dispositive custody and support order—adopted the same day by an administrative judge without a hearing—violat…
25-852 Kimberly Edelstein v. Eliott Edelstein Ohio 2026-01-16 Pending civil-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-notice property-interest state-law supremacy-clause 1. Did the state court err and violate the Supremacy Clause and Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights in reclassifying a federal civil rights ver…
25-6585 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering prosecution-misconduct self-incrimination speedy-trial 1. Whether the prosecution can use an arbitrary and fictitious list of 442 unknown individuals during sentencing all of whom never testified during t…
25-824 Tony Moody v. Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Ohio 2026-01-13 Pending antidiscrimination-law burden-shifting due-process employment-retaliation equal-protection statutory-safeguards 1. Whether the cumulative errors in applying established antiretaliation standards —specifically the misapplication of the McDonnell Douglas burden-…
25A788 Kriston Price v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-08 Application fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-invasion self-defense sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter Question not identified.
25-6488 Matthew Jones v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment The first question presented is : Should the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attach at the moment an accused is confronted by his expert adversary w…
25A769 Jeffrey L. Clemens v. W. Michael Stewart, et al. First Circuit 2026-01-05 Application civil-rights clerk-magistrate harm-to-party nondiscretionary-actions qualified-immunity section-1983 Question not identified.
25A755 Adam David Clayman v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-31 Application appellate-review court-discretion emergency-relief judicial-records procedural-due-process sealing-motion Question not identified.
25-758 Moreland Properties LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, an Ohio Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending cercla cost-recovery environmental-law national-contingency-plan private-party-cleanup substantial-compliance Under CERCLA, private parties who clean up contaminated land may recover their costs from polluters only if their cleanup substantially complies with …
25-6391 Delfon Blair v. Ohio, et al. Ohio 2025-12-17 Pending None /he. looK <A eta en>JJta\ ta taw-t |4 tau> ta ta<
25A706 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al. v. Angelina Emergency Medicine Associates PA, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-17 Application antitrust billing-practices corporate-disclosure emergency-medicine health-insurance medical-services Whether a group of health insurance providers can challenge emergency medical service providers' billing practices under federal antitrust law
25-6378 Kriston Price v. Ohio Ohio 2025-12-16 Pending aggravated-murder criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction self-defense sixth-amendment 1. Whether sufficient evidence existed to reject the defense of self defense where the defendant was violently attacked, beaten, and through the a mir…
25A697 Tra'ven Boyer-Letlow v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-15 Application counsel-of-record criminal-conviction federal-appeal indigent-defendant petition-for-certiorari sixth-circuit Whether the district court's criminal conviction of Boyer-Letlow was procedurally sound given counsel's medical incapacitation and request for extensi…
25-6356 Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2025-12-15 Pending appeal-as-of-right due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-judgment pro-se 1. Has a pro se party received due process of notice and redress under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution if the fi…
25-677 City of Cleveland, Ohio v. Albert Pickett, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al., Sixth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending article-iii-standing class-certification concrete-harm disparate-impact fair-housing-act race-neutral-policy Whether a federal court may certify a damages class that contains members who lack any injury other than an intangible harm based on the asserted disp…
25-6306 Mark Anthony Gooding v. Parole Board, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied aedpa due-diligence federal-procedure habeas-corpus pleading-amendment statutory-limitation Whether a prisoner arrested and housed in Oakland County Jail, 1201 N. Telegraph Road, Rawlins, Michigan 48341 as a pretrial detainee on an unrelated …
25A642 Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2025-12-02 Application constitutional-challenge criminal-punishment ex-post-facto lifetime-reporting sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit Whether a state's lifetime sex offender registration requirement constitutes an unconstitutional ex post facto punishment or a permissible regulatory …
25-607 Miami Township Board of Trustees v. Roger Dean Gillispie, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied civil-rights indemnification local-government respondeat-superior section-1983 supremacy-clause Whether, as applied, Ohio Revised Code § 2744.07(B) violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution because it creates de facto respon…
25-595 James William Hall v. Anthony Board, in His Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure death-threats judicial-error subject-matter-jurisdiction I Now comes petitioner James William Hall. On September 20, 2023, a complaint was filed in the Barberton Municipal Court by plaintiff Anthony Board Sr…
25-6081 Tareq R. Jabr v. Ohio Department of Taxation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied None Question not identified.
25-6051 Claude Coleman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-06 Pending fourth-amendment high-crime-area misdemeanor reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop The Fourth Amendment protects citizens in public spaces from being seized by law enforcement without reasonable suspicion that they have committed a c…
25A505 Moreland Properties LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, an Ohio Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-04 Application cercla cost-recovery environmental-cleanup national-contingency-plan state-regulators substantial-compliance Whether a state's approval of a private environmental cleanup action is sufficient to establish substantial compliance with the National Contingency P…
25-532 Diana Snow, et al. v. Dennis Wiertella, as Father and Administrator of the Estate of Randy Wiertella, Deceased Sixth Circuit 2025-10-31 Pending constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference medical-care prison-liability qualified-immunity subjective-awareness 1. Did the Sixth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994) in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners, des…
25-526 Laura Beny v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied circuit-split discrimination-evidence honest-belief-doctrine jury-trial-rights summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal courts may apply the judge-made "honest belief" doctrine to grant summary judgment in Title VII cases when: (1) this Court's unanimous…
25-5990 Tylee Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied detention fourth-amendment police-encounter reasonable-suspicion terry-stop vehicle-search 1. Whether a passenger in a vehicle, who briefly leaves the vehicle during a police encounter, but is contemporaneously detained with the vehicle and …
25-511 William Edward Williamson v. School Board of Chesapeake City, Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied civil-rights evidentiary-standard fourth-circuit mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination summary-judgment 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of a heightened and unprecedented evidentiary standard for proving racial discrimination against an Asian …
25A458 Martin Robinson v. George A. Fredrick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-22 Application exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default statute-of-limitations Whether a federal habeas petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 is timely when the petitioner has pursued multiple state post-conviction remedies and f…
25-490 Lujan Claimants v. Boy Scouts of America, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied asset-sale bankruptcy-code equitable-mootness nonconsensual-release reorganization-plan third-party-release 1. Whether 11 U.S.C. §363(m) applies to asset sales under reorganization plans —and if so, whether §363(m) immunizes Purdue-forbidden releases. 2. Wh…
25-5872 Ramon Jackson v. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied constitutional-rights election-law national-voter-registration-act secretary-of-state voter-registration voting-rights 1. Did the Michigan Secretary of State violate the Plaintiff Constitutional or Statutory voting rights by registering the Plaintiff to vote without th…
25-5845 Ohio, ex rel. Christopher Michael Williams v. Marilyn Zayas, Judge, First District Court of Appeals, Hamilton County, Ohio, et al. Ohio 2025-10-09 Denied 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling judicial-immunity state-court-procedure QUESTION #1: Does a state Court Judge, commit a violation of a Defendants 14th Amendment rights to the United States Constitution for Due process, an…
25-5817 Kyle Krill v. Ohio Ohio 2025-10-07 Denied armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment When a factual finding that multiple counts arose out of "separate acts or transactions" is necessary to authorize an increase in punishment, must thi…
25-5813 Bradley Burchfield v. Ohio Ohio 2025-10-07 Denied None Question not identified.
25-402 Mamadou Diaw v. Ohio Ohio 2025-10-03 Denied fourth-amendment investigative-use location-data privacy-rights third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement 1. Whether, after Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296 (2018), the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to obtain a single historical location…
25-5784 Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-10-02 Denied capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment mitigation-testimony videoconference-testimony 1. Does the Eighth Amendment allow the State to prevent live mitigation testimony in favor of a capital defendant based upon financial reasons alone (…
25-394 Beit Ha Kavod v. City of Canton, Ohio Ohio 2025-10-02 Denied building-codes constitutional-rights first-amendment free-exercise-clause municipal-law religious-discrimination The question presented is whether a municipality enforcing building codes violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United State…
25-5765 Markeisha Elliott v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on ineffective assistance of counsel claims related to jury instructio…
25A365 City of Cleveland, Ohio v. Albert Pickett, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al., Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing class-certification concrete-injury disparate-impact fair-housing-act water-liens Whether a federal court may certify a class action under Rule 23 when some class members lack Article III standing due to absence of concrete injury i…
25-5734 Charles Robol v. City of Columbus, Ohio, et al. Ohio 2025-09-25 Denied first-amendment fourth-amendment procedural-due-process public-forum recording-rights viewpoint-discrimination Whether a municipality's imposition of overbroad restrictions violates the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and press, whether a stat…
25-5659 Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Ohio 2025-09-16 Denied double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether a trial court can correct a jury verdict that announced the wrong name after jury discharge without violating due process or double jeopardy
25-5646 John C. Miller v. Indiana Indiana 2025-09-16 Denied constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment state-constitution Whether the Indiana Supreme Court's decision on March 13, 2025 was in error regarding constitutional protections under Terry v. Ohio
25-5632 Isaac Alvarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied None Question not identified.
25-5534 Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio Ohio 2025-09-03 Denied cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder fourteenth-amendment Does the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of Due Process and Equal Prote…
25-5528 Arthur L. Vitasek v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-03 Denied arguable-claims criminal-defendant habeas-relief judicial-jurisdiction magistrate-determination ninth-circuit-procedure Whether the Magistrate, District Court Judge, and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lost jurisdiction after determining an arguable issue existed without…
25-247 Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio Ohio 2025-09-03 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-vouching sixth-amendment witness-credibility Whether prosecutorial vouching for a witness's credibility violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
25-5466 Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-26 Denied criminal-rule-29 due-process habeas-corpus jackson-virginia negative-defense sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a Petitioner claiming insufficiency of evidence under Jackson v. Virginia can raise a legitimate constitutional claim through a Criminal Rule-…
25A199 Peyman Roshan v. Chika Sunquist, Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete administrative-action civil-rights judicial-proceeding procedural-barrier state-court younger-abstention Whether Younger abstention requires a state administrative proceeding to be 'judicial in nature' and whether state administrative proceedings creating…
25-191 James Napier v. Orchard School Foundation Seventh Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied civil-rights-act employer-bias employment-discrimination equal-protection evidentiary-standards title-vii Whether the opinion of the court of appeals disregarding evidence of employer bias against male employees is contrary to the Supreme Court's decision …
25A154 Ohio, ex rel. Jeffery L. Howard v. John R. Williamowski, Judge, Ohio Third District Court of Appeals, et al. Ohio 2025-08-06 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
25-136 Francis Palardy v. AT&T Services Inc., et al. Texas 2025-08-05 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act defamation disability-discrimination equal-protection supremacy-clause tester-litigation Whether state courts may disregard the Americans with Disabilities Act when adjudicating defamation claims involving disability-related conduct, in vi…
25A125 Markeisha Elliott v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-30 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions murder-conviction sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires reversal of a murder conviction where trial counsel allegedly failed to …
25A119 Donald Olsen v. Aaron Salter Sixth Circuit 2025-07-29 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eyewitness-testimony law-enforcement qualified-immunity show-up-identification Whether a police officer can be held liable for a due process violation when conducting a single-photo show-up identification procedure and whether qu…
25A117 Matthew Jones v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability that would have allowed further review of a potentially me…
25-91 Richmond Road Partners, LLC, et al. v. City of Warrensville Heights, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied economically-beneficial-use investment-backed-expectations judicial-invalidation legislative-repeal property-rights temporary-takings Whether the extraordinary delay test applies in a retrospectively temporary taking and whether the absence of extraordinary delay categorically defeat…
25A96 Michael Poffenbarger v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete covid-vaccination military-mandate mootness preliminary-injunction religious-freedom rfra Question not identified.
25A94 Hunter Doster, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete backpay covid-vaccination mootness preliminary-injunction religious-liberty rfra Question not identified.
25A77 Everglades College, Inc. v. Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure agency-settlement due-process intervention separation-of-powers student-loans Question not identified.
25-5159 Laron Gregory v. Ohio Ohio 2025-07-21 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion jury-verdict motion-review Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals' denial of a motion to review judgment regarding defective jury verdict forms constitutes an abuse of discretion vio…
25A63 District of Columbia v. R.W. District of Columbia 2025-07-16 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment investigative-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances Whether a reviewing court may consider all known facts, including a radio dispatch, when assessing the totality of circumstances for reasonable suspic…
25A55 Dawn Eagle Feather Floyd v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-14 Presumed Complete drug-offenses fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant standing suppression-motion Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle based on independent probable cause derived from the…
25-5068 Dwayne Anderson v. Ohio Ohio 2025-07-09 Denied bill-of-particulars constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Was Dwayne Anderson's right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him violated when the state failed to provide him a bill …
25-5010 Timothy Lynn Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment suppression-motion terry-stop vehicle-search Did the lower courts err in finding that the search of petitioner's vehicle was justified under Terry v. Ohio, and does the Fifth Circuit's opinion co…
25-5007 Fredrick Johnson v. Ohio Ohio 2025-07-01 Denied as-applied-challenge circuit-court firearm-possession intervening-precedent second-amendment state-court-appeal Must a state-court appellate system address the merits of a defendant's Second Amendment as-applied challenge to a firearm-possession charge under Rah…
25-5006 Fredrick Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-01 Denied as-applied-challenge circuit-precedent federal-appeal firearm-possession rahimi-decision second-amendment Must a federal circuit court address the merits of a defendant's Second Amendment as-applied challenge to a firearm-possession charge under Rahimi and…
24A1289 Kriston Price v. Ohio Ohio 2025-06-26 Presumed Complete extension-of-time incarceration legal-representation pro-se supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a pro se incarcerated petitioner to seek an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on …
24-7510 Beit Ha Kavod v. City of Canton, Ohio Ohio 2025-06-26 Denied building-codes constitutional-law first-amendment free-exercise-clause municipal-regulation religious-discrimination Whether a municipality enforcing building codes violates the Free Exercise Clause when treating one religious organization differently from another
24-1318 American Electric Power Service Corporation v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-26 Denied energy-law federal-power-act interstate-transmission preemption regional-transmission-organization utility-regulation Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly held that the Federal Power Act does not preempt Ohio's RTO mandate and whether RTO mandates render utilities inel…
24-1304 FirstEnergy Service Company v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied administrative-law federal-energy-regulatory-commission preemption state-law-mandate transmission-organization utility-regulation Whether a federal agency acts arbitrarily or capriciously in determining a post-settlement change of law, and whether federal law applies to utility t…
24A1273 Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) permits federal habeas review of a state court conviction when the petitioner's clai…
24A1265 Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio Ohio 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-vouching Whether a trial court violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by permitting prosecutorial and police vouching for a witness's cre…
24A1268 Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio Ohio 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-review death-penalty fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Whether a state court's denial of a post-conviction petition raising claims of newly discovered evidence related to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (F…
24-7410 Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-12 Dismissed appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-courts final-judgment multi-count-indictment sentencing Whether a judgment which convicts and sentences a defendant on a count of a multi-count indictment is appealable under § 1291 where, although others c…
24A1145 Free Press, et al. v. Ohio Telecom Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-05-27 Presumed Complete None
24A1115 Richmond Road Partners, LLC, et al. v. City of Warrensville Heights, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-05-20 Presumed Complete None
24-1136 Dale Prey v. Franciscan University of Steubenville, et al. Ohio 2025-05-06 Denied constitutional-rights equal-protection first-amendment judicial-interpretation religious-doctrine tort-law Whether the First Amendment's prohibition on congressional lawmaking limits judicial interpretation of religious doctrine and tort claims, and whether…
24-1120 Ohio, ex rel. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio v. Rover Pipeline, LLC, et al. Ohio 2025-04-29 Denied certification-waiver clean-water-act federal-licensing natural-gas-act state-sovereignty water-quality-laws To start the States' waiver timeframe under 33 U.S.C. §1341(a)(1), must an applicant submit a valid certification request that satisfies applicable le…
24-7081 Michael Galluzzo v. Robin K. Edwards, Champaign County Treasurer Ohio 2025-04-28 Denied constitutional-requirement judicial-authority jurisdiction oath-of-office plain-error standing Whether the court committed plain error by failing to adhere to constitutional requirements for judicial appointments and oaths of office
24-7047 In Re Sefe A. Almedom 2025-04-22 Denied constitutional-law court-jurisdiction judicial-authority legal-fraud state-supreme-court statutory-interpretation Whether the Ohio Supreme Court has greater authority than the U.S. Supreme Court in interpreting constitutional statutes and state laws
24A999 Fredrick Johnson v. Ohio Ohio 2025-04-18 Presumed Complete None
24A970 David Yost, Attorney General of Ohio v. Cynthia Brown, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-04-10 Presumed Complete None
24-6927 Bryant Cobb v. Ohio Ohio 2025-04-04 Denied appellate-review constitutional-rights excessive-bail fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals' affirmation of the denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress violates the Excessive Bail Clause and Fourth Amendmen…
24-6931 Ohio, ex rel. David E. Feathers v. Eleventh District Court of Appeals of Ohio, Portage County, et al. Ohio 2025-04-04 Denied custodial-supervision due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus Whether the use of a sham legal process by the Eleventh District Court of Appeals of Ohio warrants the issuance of a writ of mandamus, prohibition, or…
24-6902 In Re Sefe A. Almedom 2025-03-31 Denied constitutional-law federal-supremacy fraud-upon-court judicial-authority stare-decisis state-supreme-court Whether the Ohio Supreme Court can override U.S. Supreme Court rulings on constitutional matters and revive unconstitutional statutes or sentences
24-6884 Arthur L. Vitasek v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied arguable-claims court-rulings criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction legal-representation Whether the Magistrate, District Court Judge, and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lost jurisdiction after determining an arguable issue existed without…
24-985 Ohio v. Garry Smith Ohio 2025-03-14 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-doctrine hearsay-exception testimonial-statements Whether statements made to responding officers during emergency medical care are nontestimonial under the Confrontation Clause when lacking investigat…
24-6760 Christopher Michael Williams v. Pavan Parikh, Clerk, Hamilton County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied administrative-duties civil-rights first-amendment judicial-machinery petition-of-grievances quasi-judicial-immunity Is a State Court Clerk entitled to absolute quasi-judicial immunity regardless of their conduct due to their administrative duties being closely inter…
24-6739 Christopher L. Smith v. Ohio Ohio 2025-03-11 Denied batson-challenge due-process expert-witness-testimony fair-trial jury-discrimination prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Ohio trial court clearly erred in not conducting the Batson three-step analysis for jury selection and in failing to address alleged discr…
24-6723 Carol Lynne Morgan v. Leby Sassya Ohio 2025-03-10 Denied amendment-violations constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-remedy state-court-procedure Whether the United States Supreme Court should provide national safeguards against lower State Court systemic failures to comply with fundamental Cons…
24-6704 Brian Jury v. Ohio Ohio 2025-03-05 Denied appellate-review brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct Did the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals impose an improper standard for Brady claims by requiring proof of state possession of evidence and mater…
24-938 American Airlines Group Inc. v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied anticompetitive-effects antitrust-law joint-venture market-competition procompetitive-effects rule-of-reason Whether, absent evidence of a marketwide price increase or output reduction, a reduction in competition between two members to a joint venture is suff…
24-6566 Felix O. Brown, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2025-02-14 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation due-process jury-communication state-suppression Can newly discovered material evidence revealing an unauthorized communication with a deliberating jury violate a defendant's constitutional rights an…
24-863 Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota South Dakota 2025-02-12 Denied fourth-amendment passenger-rights probable-cause search-warrant traffic-stop vehicle-search Whether officers must have probable cause to search purses held or worn by passengers during traffic stops
24-6527 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Gilbert Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigant self-defense Whether the trial court violated Mr. Saved's procedural and substantive due process rights by failing to hold a competency hearing and allowing him to…
24-6426 Carlin U. Powell v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied constitutional-violation dna-evidence evidence-tampering ineffective-assistance interstate-detainer perjury Whether state prosecutors and witnesses can commit perjury and evidence tampering without constitutional consequences
24-6372 Isidro Romero-Corona v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process miranda-custody supreme-court-precedent Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes
24-6379 Lamar Reese v. Ohio Ohio 2025-01-24 Denied confrontation-clause constitutional-review due-process evidence-admissibility polygraph-evidence scientific-evidence Whether the polygraph examination is admissible under Daubert and the Federal Rules of Evidence
24-6338 Hakeem-Ali Shomo v. Ohio, et al. Ohio 2025-01-17 Denied constitutional-protection double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-intent QP: Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when judicial misconduct leads to a defense-requested mistrial, even without specific intent to provok…
24-6293 Ohio, ex rel. John Paul Gomez v. Dan Favreau, Judge, et al. Ohio 2025-01-14 Denied constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-bias vexatious-litigator Whether the lower court's vexatious litigator designation and dismissal of grievances against judicial officers violate the petitioner's constitutiona…
24-742 Vanessa Enoch v. Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied courthouse-recording first-amendment law-enforcement-discretion media-rights news-gathering public-spaces Whether the Sheriff's unilateral policy banning news gathering recording activities in courthouse public hallways violates First Amendment rights by d…
24-716 Tate David Prows v. City of Oxford, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied article-iii-standing chilling-effect constitutional-rights first-amendment legislative-authority police-power Are all First Amendment Chilling Effect Cases Subjective and Do Political Subdivisions of States Have the Lawful Authority to Create Their Own Police …
24-686 Dustin Young v. John R. Swaney, Sheriff, Madison County, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-12-27 Denied certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-rights federal-appeals habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation Whether a certificate of appealability may be granted under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) when the issue that the petitioner wishes to present on appeal has bee…
24-6094 Ramone Wright v. Milton Graham, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-12-09 Dismissed administrative-law federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus immigration-detention judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts can review challenges to immigration detention decisions under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii)
24-584 Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction v. Kayla Jean Ayers Sixth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied aedpa due-diligence factual-predicate federal-review habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations Whether obtaining new support for a previously available claim constitutes a new 'factual predicate' that restarts the one-year habeas petition filing…
24-6027 In Re Pierre Haobsh 2024-11-25 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure Whether the State of California violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the petitioner through unconstitutional search and seizure prac…
24-5955 John C. Coleman v. Ohio Ohio 2024-11-12 Denied constitutional-rights dna-collection due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause warrant Whether the DNA obtained from a suspect without a warrant and without probable cause violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process protec…
24-478 Omnisun Azali v. Ohio Ohio 2024-10-30 Denied appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence Does express statutory permission to act in self-defense trigger Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment protections requiring prosecutors to prove beyond a re…
24-5844 Kimberly Edelstein v. Max Edelstein Ohio 2024-10-29 Denied constitutional-rights contract-law due-process free-exercise-clause neutral-principles religious-marriage Whether Ohio courts improperly invalidated a Jewish marriage contract (Ketubah) by refusing to enforce religious marriage agreements and applying inco…
24-450 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-10-22 Denied administrative-record agency-action chenery-doctrine clean-air-act judicial-review rulemaking-procedure Whether the Clean Air Act permits remand to the EPA to supplement the administrative record with new information and justifications after a rule is pr…
24-5771 Kyle Christopher Zoellner v. City of Arcata, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment probable-cause sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's judgment regarding probable cause for arrest and the constitutional implications of …
24-421 Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith Sixth Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied aedpa constitutional-violation due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit exceed its powers under AEDPA in concluding that 'every fairminded jurist would agree' that the Ohio court violated the Constitu…
24-5752 Norman Thurber v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied criminal-responsibility federal-criminal-law intent mens-rea scienter statutory-interpretation Whether there is a mens rea requirement for Scienter in 18 U.S.C. Section 2251
24-5734 In Re Abdur-Rahim Dib Dudar 2024-10-09 Denied appellate-procedure default-judgment district-court judicial-discretion procedural-motion venue-transfer Whether the transfer of a case from District 1 to District 2 under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) was proper and whether the defendant is entitled to a default j…
24-5708 Andrew Ocanas Garza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-04 Denied appellate-review certiorari constitutional-provisions jurisdictional-issues legal-petition supreme-court Question not identified.
24A329 Robert Wharton v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix Third Circuit 2024-10-04 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing counsel-performance ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence prison-behavior sixth-amendment Whether a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when counsel fails to present mitigating evidence o…
24-374 Richard P. Homrighausen v. Ohio Ohio 2024-10-02 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process jury-trial logical-inconsistency verdict-review Whether a criminal defendant is denied due process when convicted of two crimes where a guilty verdict on one count logically excludes a finding of gu…
24-5687 Solomon Odubajo v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure source-state terry-stop warrantless-search Whether a single factor of a parcel's state of origin is sufficient to establish reasonable suspicion for seizure and whether a warrantless search of …
24-5652 Tiffany Smith v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion provocation self-defense Whether the appellate court violated due process by affirming a conviction without properly considering uncontradicted evidence of self-defense and pr…
24-5575 Elton Whittle v. Ohio Ohio 2024-09-19 Denied None Question not identified.
24-5498 Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California California 2024-09-10 Denied attorney-discipline disbarment due-process federal-court-practice fourteenth-amendment state-bar-regulation Whether California State Bar can regulate the practice of law in federal court and impose disbarment without due process
24-5505 David Brian Larche, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop traffic-stop warrantless-detention Whether possession of cash alone constitutes reasonable suspicion to prolong a warrantless detention after a completed traffic stop
24A251 Darryl Carter, et al. v. James E. Stewart, Sr., in his Official Capacity as District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete civil-rights fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination summary-judgment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits civil rights lawsuits by prospective jurors challenging racially-motivated peremptory challenges when statist…
24-5439 Richard Beasley v. Ohio Ohio 2024-09-04 Denied appellate-procedure capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights are violated when a state supreme court dismisses a capital appeal and fails to appoint replacement …
24-5381 Nathan Cooper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-search probable-cause stop-and-frisk terry-stop Whether the Court should overrule the frisk holding of Terry v. Ohio, which allows police officers to search people absent probable cause to arrest
24-5326 Thomas E. Knuff, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2024-08-15 Denied capital-defendant criminal-acts due-process improper-joinder jury-verdict prosecutorial-misconduct Does the admission of improper and prejudicial evidence of other criminal acts by way of improper joinder violate a capital defendant's right to due p…
24A174 Omnisun Azali v. Ohio Ohio 2024-08-14 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment self-defense sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant was not acting in lawful self-defens…
24-5289 Martin Robinson v. Ohio Medical Board, et al. Ohio 2024-08-09 Dismissed constitutional-due-process judicial-misconduct jury-trial-right motion-for-counsel recusal-request supreme-court-procedure Whether the Supreme Court improperly denied petitioner's motions for counsel, jury trial, and judicial recusal despite allegations of judicial miscond…
24-140 Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Northern California Collection Service, Inc., et al. California 2024-08-07 Denied access-to-courts due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment separation-of-powers vexatious-litigant Whether the California Vexatious Litigant Statute unconstitutionally violates due process and separation of powers by restricting pro se litigants' ac…
24-5220 Christopher L. Smith v. Ohio Ohio 2024-08-05 Denied civil-procedure-joinder confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial prejudicial-joinder probable-cause rules-of-evidence search-warrant sufficiency-of-evidence Whether prejudicial joinder of unrelated counts violates the right to a fair trial,
24-5189 Brandon Alexander v. Ohio Ohio 2024-07-31 Denied burden-of-proof direct-appeal evidence-admission harmless-error inadmissible-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sixth-amendment When a defendant asserts IAC on direct appeal in Ohio for failing to object to inadmissible evidence and is able to demonstrate deficient performance,…
24A117 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-31 Presumed Complete administrative-action clean-air-act epa-regulation greenhouse-gas major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation Whether the Clean Air Act allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in a manner that exceeds i…
24-5192 Matthew Nicholson v. Ohio Ohio 2024-07-31 Denied arbitrariness constitutional-proportionality county-geography criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection geographic-disparity gregg-v-georgia sentencing-disparities Is Ohio's death penalty being arbitrarily applied in violation of Gregg v. Georgia, when geography dictates whether a defendant will be subject to the…
24-5197 Curtis Mitchell Paul v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied criminal-investigation empirical-evidence fourth-amendment officer-mistake probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio totality-of-the-circumstances Whether a police officer violates the Fourth Amendment when he seizes for criminal investigation a pedestrian walking in the vicinity of a recent robb…
24-85 Merrilee Stewart v. Kim J. Brown, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights hearing-requirement housing-rights judicial-procedure procedural-due-process property-rights standing urban-housing-rights due-process
24-5147 Lamon D. Boyd v. Ohio Ohio 2024-07-25 Denied due-process exclusionary-rule exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment issue being raised search-and-seizure term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 warrantless-search 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure,14th-amendment-due-process,exclusionary-rule,plain-view-doctrine,exigent-circumstances,6th-amendment-fair-trial
24-5084 Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig Ohio 2024-07-16 Denied child-support due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections social-security-act takings-clause turner-v-rogers Whether non-adherence to Turner procedural protections violates substantive-due-process-and-privileges-and-immunities,takings-clause,due-process-and-e…
24A34 David Brian Larche, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment investigatory-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop traffic-stop Whether law enforcement may extend a traffic stop and conduct a search based on mere speculation about criminal activity, contrary to the reasonable s…
24-5037 William J. Kemp v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process griffin-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the prosecutor's actions and trial court's instructions violated due process and warrant independent habeas review under Griffin v. California…
24-13 Ohio, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. District of Columbia 2024-07-09 Denied commerce-clause constitutional-structure environmental-regulation equal-sovereignty federal-government federalism sovereign-power state-equality state-power May Congress pass a law under the Commerce Clause that empowers one State to exercise sovereign power that the law denies to all other States?
24-5004 Joshua Mounts v. Ohio Ohio 2024-07-03 Denied confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witnesses nazi-comparison personal-attacks prosecutorial-misconduct Whether violations of the United States Constitution occur where defense experts are not allowed to respond to criticism of their expert reports and w…
23-7736 Clarence Mack v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied 28-usc-2254d2 brady-napue-claims brady-violation capital-punishment capital-trial habeas-corpus informant-testimony informant-witness napue-violation prosecutor-deal prosecutorial-misconduct unreasonable-determination When the existence of at least an informal, tacit, or unspoken deal between the prosecutor and his star informant-witness in a capital trial is self-e…
23-7730 Thomas Richardson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-exceptions legal-precedent standing supreme-court-authority Question not identified.
23-7671 James Chamblin v. Ohio Ohio 2024-06-07 Denied amendment constitutional-rights due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-amendment pleading-recasting recasting-of-pleadings state-appellate-court Does a State Appellate Court violate a Petitioner's right to Due Process under the United States Constitution, when a court recast a litigants pleadin…
23-7672 Andrew Culler v. Ohio Ohio 2024-06-07 Denied confrontation-clause due-process medical-examination sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay victim-statements The admission of testimonial hearsay violates the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause
23-7614 Melvin Bonnell v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied actual-innocence bad-faith brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-misconduct youngblood youngblood-claim When bad faith is uncovered years after the petitioner fully litigated his initial habeas petition, should a Youngblood claim be considered newly ripe…
23-7623 Estephen Castellon v. Ohio Ohio 2024-06-03 Denied criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement sixth-amendment speedy-trial warrant-execution Whether the failure to preserve potentially exculpatory evidence under the Trombetta and Youngblood standards, coupled with delays in trial proceeding…
23-7610 David K. Horsley v. Ohio Ohio 2024-05-31 Denied 6th-amendment anders-review appellate-procedure constitutional-violation due-process procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel sixth-amendment stare-decisis time-limit Does Ohio's App. R. 26(B)(1) violate the 6th Amendment by applying a time limit to reopen an appeal when an applicant has proven counsel error in not …
23-7557 Paul Henry Gibson v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus hospital-records incapacitation judicial-bias procedural-error structural-error Does the lower court's decision to bar petitioner, and deny equitable tolling for the period of time petitioner was incapacitated, violate due-process…
23-1225 Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al. v. Anne Arundel County, Maryland Fourth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied 303-creative-llc-v-elenis commercial-speech compelled-speech content-based-regulation expert-testimony first-amendment nifla zauderer zauderer-standard Whether the court of appeals impermissibly allowed the County to violate Petitioners' First Amendment right 'to remain silent,' as reaffirmed in 303 C…
23-7494 Ohio, ex rel. Soleiman Mobarak v. Jeffrey M. Brown, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, et al. Ohio 2024-05-17 Denied constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retrospective-legislation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness Is it repugnant to convict a US citizen for innocent acts not criminalized by statute?
23-1203 Terpsehore Maras v. Mayfield City School District Board of Education, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minors mootness mootness-doctrine parental-rights pro-se-representation pro-se-rights statutory-interpretation pro-se-rights,parental-rights,minors,mootness,civil-rights,due-process
23-7364 Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-05-02 Denied capital-punishment death-penalty eddings-v-oklahoma ineffective-assistance lockett-v-ohio mitigation sentencing-considerations supreme-court-precedent tennard-v-dretke youth youth-mitigation May a state categorically exclude youth as a mitigating factor in a capital case?
23-7359 Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied confidential-informant constitutional-rights due-process prison-management retaliation rule-50 state-actor transcript Can a prison confidential informant be described as a state actor for retaliation
23-1178 First Floor Living, LLC v. City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss summary-judgment trial-court-discretion Whether a trial court may enter summary judgment against a party without allowing that party to conduct discovery
23-1181 Gail M. Ritchey v. Ohio Ohio 2024-05-01 Denied autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-investigation criminal-procedure evidence hearsay-evidence medical-examiner medical-examiner-testimony sixth-amendment Does the admission of an autopsy report and testimony from a doctor who neither participated in the autopsy nor prepared the report violate the Sixth …
23-7349 Scott Zirus v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure housing-assistance mandamus property-rights regulatory-taking standing venue-transfer whether-mandamus-relief-is-available
23-1147 Jahmir Christopher Frank v. Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied civil-procedure equitable-powers federal-civil-rule-60(b)(6) medical-malpractice medical-records public-interest rule-60 sixth-circuit tort Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit have reversed the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio for f…
23-1151 Nathaniel Brian Verellen v. Michigan Michigan 2024-04-23 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-material constitutional-rights due-process indian-commerce-clause license-plate traffic-code tribal-sovereignty Did the State of Michigan erroneously redefine 'registration plate' so as to unlawfully broaden and apply Michigan Traffic Code, MCL 257.256, License …
23-7254 Alfred Johnson, Sr. v. Ohio Ohio 2024-04-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Question not identified
23-1124 Judson Hawkins, et al. v. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Ohio 2024-04-17 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-agency constitutional-interpretation due-process procedural-rights property-rights substantive-rights Does the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantee a substantive right to prevail against …
23-1100 Albert Jones v. California California 2024-04-10 Denied 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights doyle-v-ohio due-process miranda-warning post-miranda right-to-silence selective-invocation Do the protections of Doyle v. Ohio apply when a defendant selectively invokes his right to remain silent?
23-1069 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied administrative-law agency-action agency-deference energy-regulation federal-power-act ferc ferc-review judicial-deference majority-vote statutory-interpretation wholesale-electricity Should courts apply the same deferential standard of review that they apply to rules that become effective by order of the Federal Energy Regulatory C…
23-1065 Robert A. Eaton v. Montana Silversmiths Ninth Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit pro-se-litigation standing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether the Ninth Circuit had power to waive Eaton's constitutional rights
23-7093 Jeremy J. Quinn, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2024-03-28 Denied constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-statute state-courts Whether a state court's imposition of a criminal sentence that violates the defendant's due process rights and constitutes cruel and unusual punishmen…
23-7094 Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio Ohio 2024-03-28 Denied administrative-agency administrative-extension criminal-sentencing due-process incarceration incarceration-findings jury-trial post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to trial by jury allow prison administrators to use their own post-conviction factual findings as the …
23-7084 Gregory S. Kudla v. Kenneth Black, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-vagueness discriminatory-enforcement due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment vagueness Is the undefined, non-specific, ambiguous language used in Ohio's App-R.26(B)(2)(c) that results in arbitrary, inconsistent, and discriminatory enforc…
23A864 Manuel Sepulveda v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-27 Presumed Complete capital-case death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penalty-phase post-conviction Whether ineffective assistance of counsel during a capital case's penalty phase warrants federal habeas relief when state post-conviction proceedings …
23-7076 Jose R. Villavicencio v. Myron N. Terlecky Sixth Circuit 2024-03-26 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-exemption civil-procedure civil-rights drafting-error due-process exemptions iRA-exemption judicial-interpretation land-contract ohio-revised-code standing Is an error in the drafting of a land contract something that the court can ignore even as the validity of that land contract is central to the case
23-7057 Sammy Tinnin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-03-22 Dismissed criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the admission of evidence that is not supported by the record deprives a defendant of their Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair tri…
23A856 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2024-03-20 Denied adaptive-deficits death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing woodard-precedent Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically bars the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose IQ scores and adaptive deficits demonstrat…
23-1039 Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services Sixth Circuit 2024-03-20 Judgment Issued burden-of-proof civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment employment employment-discrimination majority-group pleading-standard standing title-vii Whether, in addition to pleading the other elements of Title VII, a majority-group plaintiff must show 'background circumstances to support the suspic…
23-6972 Jeremy Lynn Kerr v. Keith Lenz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata rooker-feldman standing state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Rooker-Feldman bars a collateral attack on a void ab initio state court judgment
23-6975 D'Amantae Graham v. Ohio Ohio 2024-03-13 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment sovereign-citizen trial-court Can a trial court deny a criminal defendant the right to self-representation solely because he was designated a sovereign citizen?
23-957 David Michael Bishop, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied administrative-investigation civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech irs irs-summons judicial-review powell-factors standing tax tax-procedure Whether the IRS summons process is subject to quashing and constraint by the First Amendment's protections against chilling or retaliatory government …
23A794 Gail M. Ritchey v. Ohio Ohio 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause constitutional-criminal-procedure coroner's-report evidence-admissibility hearsay sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment permits the introduction of a coroner's report prepared by a non-testifying and unavailable declarant as evidence
23A777 Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services Sixth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete background-circumstances circuit-split employment-discrimination majority-group statutory-interpretation title-vii Whether Title VII permits courts to impose a heightened evidentiary burden on majority-group plaintiffs alleging employment discrimination by requirin…
23-902 Richard Duncan v. City of Mentor, Ohio Ohio 2024-02-21 Denied administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedy civil-procedure concurrent-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation mandamus-action property-taking state-court-procedure takings temporary-takings Whether the Ohio Supreme Court's newly established exhaustion of administrative remedy and ruling that 'if the court of common pleas had reversed the …
23-881 Douglas Bruce v. City of Miamisburg, Ohio Sixth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied constitutional-deprivation due-process municipal-action notice property-rights section-1983 statute-of-limitations takings Whether due process allows statute of limitations on Section 1983 claim to begin without actual notice of property deprivation
23-6706 Ohio, ex rel. Lonnie Rarden v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Butler County, et al. Ohio 2024-02-08 Denied criminal-procedure faretta-v-california fundamental-error johnson-v-zerbst law-of-the-case res-judicata right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-jurisdiction waiver-of-counsel Does this Court no longer recognize the right to counsel under Johnson v. Zerbst?
23A731 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete administrative-law agency-action capacity-auctions ferc judicial-review state-subsidies Whether a federal agency's deadlocked vote constitutes final agency action subject to judicial review and, if so, how courts should evaluate and resol…
23-6658 Ricky Johnson, aka Rodney Knuckles v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review ohio-supreme-court post-conviction procedural-rules revocation-hearing Whether the petitioner was denied the right to a revocation hearing under Morrissey v. Brewer and Gagnon v. Scarpelli, and the right to effective assi…
23-820 Ohio v. William Johnson Ohio 2024-01-30 Denied 911-recording confrontation-clause domestic-violence excited-utterance hearsay non-testimonial ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment Were the statements describing the fresh incident of domestic violence in the 911 recording non-testimonial?
23-6607 Harry William Lott v. Ohio Job and Family Services Department Washington 2024-01-29 Denied civil-rights court-access due-process first-amendment legal-restrictions ohio-statute petition petition-rights standing vexatious-litigator Does the state of Ohio have the ability to stop access to the court by using the Vexatious Litigator OH, Rev, cod, § 2323.52 or does the First amendme…
23-6582 Joseph Emerson v. United States District Court, et al. Ohio 2024-01-26 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights court-corruption defamation due-process employment-discrimination extraordinary-writ favoritism interstate-dispute judicial-misconduct nepotism standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the dismissal of his cases by the Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy, who…
23-6569 Leonard Nyamusevya v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process in-rem-action judicial-report property-rights rule-9011 takings Is a per se taking when Rule 9011 and Constitutions were violated, where a paid off home was taken in violation of § 524(a) and O.R.C. § 2329 and Rule…
23-6549 Delon Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment motion-to-withdraw penson-v-ohio right-to-counsel standing Whether the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when the United States Court of Appeals granted counsel's motion for leave to withd…
23-6550 Xavier Howell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied drug-trafficking fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections probable-cause terry-stop terry-v-ohio vehicle-search vehicle-stop warrantless-search warrantless-stop Whether a Warrantless Stop of a Vehicle, Based Solely on Proximity to a Motel Known for Drug Trafficking, in the Absence of any Actual Violation of th…
23A665 Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio Ohio 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing factual-findings indeterminate-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether Ohio's indeterminate sentencing scheme violates the Sixth Amendment by permitting judicial factual findings that increase a defendant's impris…
23-772 David Andrew Bardes v. George W. Bush, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-challenge due-process federal-dismissal judicial-procedure pro-se standing supreme-court Why does the Constitution, or laws of any kind, not apply to George Walker BUSH or 'his associates? Why has the Constitution failed? Why does the Supr…
23-6454 Darwin Dwayne Hutchins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied career-offender cocaine-definition controlled-substance federal-vs-state-law non-violent-drug-crimes sentence-length sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines state-federal-definition Did the district court err in counting Hutchins's Ohio cocaine conviction as a controlled substance offense for career offender under the Sentencing G…
23-6426 Leonard Nyamusevya v. CitiMortgage, Inc., et al. Ohio 2024-01-08 Denied bankruptcy civil-procedure constitutional-violation discharged-debt due-process judicial-report mortgage-foreclosure property-taking public-interest statutory-interpretation takings whether-a-supplemental-final-judicial-report-violates-the-ohio-and-u.s.-constitutions
23-6355 Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-12-27 Denied article-1-section-8 criminal-procedure drug-buys dunaway-v-new-york fourth-amendment probable-cause strickland-standard terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-arrest Whether the Pennsylvania judiciary's application of the Strickland/Pierce standard was unreasonable
23-6345 Jeffrey M. Spring, Sr. v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence procedural-due-process sixth-amendment substantive-due-process Is it a violation of substantive and procedural due process to deny the defendant an evidentiary hearing to develop newly discovered evidence?
23-6349 Derrick Martin King v. Budget Car Mart, LLC Ohio 2023-12-26 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pandemic remote-depositions Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio's administrative orders necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic regarding the use of remote depositions violates a civ…